Job Description

Role Responsibilities
Strategy

• Support setting and implementation of the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for i3 Asia, consistent with the vision and strategy for FCC and in support of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s strategic direction and growth aspirations.

Business

• Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices and trends.

Processes

• Provide subject matter expertise on financial crime intelligence, drawing on law enforcement and other professional networks, professional qualifications and experience.
• Continuous monitoring of the internal and external environment through various sources, including the media, to identify financial crime risks which may potentially impact the Bank. Map and assess those risks, quantify the potential impact and escalate where necessary.
• Undertake complex research derived from multiple sources, both internal and external to SCB (to include business, operations, compliance, open-source web searches, domestic and international regulatory bodies) to produce strategic and tactical intelligence products.
• Execute key deliverables designated by Group i3 and the HRCET unit.
• Work with key stakeholders to generate proactive projects in which large internal datasets (including client static data and transactions) are analysed to identify financial crime risk through patterns, trends and typologies.
• Support specialized intelligence assessments and analysis of clients, countries and products through examination of transactions, Production Orders, subpoenas, warrants, and other internal datasets.
• Draft STRs as required.
• Develop, keep up to date and recommend for approval, appropriate policies/processes/DOIs to address financial crime risks, aligning with relevant regulatory requirements, and such relevant Regional/Group documents.
• Provide advice to relevant stakeholders on compliance with Group standards relating to financial crime.
• Sustain and develop i3 Asia\xe2\x80\x99s outreach capabilities, including establishing and maintaining contacts with law enforcement agencies, regulators, not-for-profit organizations, industry bodies and other financial institutions, in accordance with Group and Regional financial crime priorities, in order to assist the Bank to proactively mitigate financial crime risk, and to demonstrate the Bank is at the forefront in the fight against financial crime.
• Participate and play a leading role in external industry forums, working groups and public-private-partnership events as a representative of the Bank in the financial crime space, and drive development thereof, as appropriate.
• Participate in external discussion panels, present at conferences, prepare written articles for professional publications and otherwise raise the profile of the Bank at professional forums.
• Attend / support Fraud and Money Laundering Task Force (FMLIT) Operations Group and Strategic Group meetings. Action cases from the Operations Group meetings.
• Organise and host Financial Crime Intelligence Roundtables / virtual sessions periodically

People and Talent

• Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
• Stimulate an environment where forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management and streamlined workflows and collaborative, inclusive yet effective and efficient work practices are the norm.
• Collaborate with training teams to input to training curriculum to support closing of capability gaps.

Risk Management

• Apply Group and FCC policies and processes, as appropriate.
• Make recommendations (and/or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management actions to identified risks and/or findings of concerns from investigations.
• As necessary, work in partnership with business segments to ensure that financial crime risks identified from external sources and internal deep-dive client reviews are appropriately addressed and mitigated.
• As required, assess risks arising from products / segments / geographies / customers / transactions.
• Identify intelligence with a view to research, identification of red flags and typologies, and risk mitigation.
• Identify current and emerging financial crime risk indicators through various internal/external sources.
• Advise relevant stakeholders on outcomes of AML risk identification and assessment methodologies.
• Ensure all intelligence investigations are properly concluded. Share best practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide intelligence investigative expertise to support management of significant regulatory/legal cases.
• Manage end-to-end financial crime client reviews initiated by external sources (regulators, law enforcement agencies, authorities or other external organisations), and internal surveillance.
• Conduct a root cause analysis on the control/other failures, as required, to ensure lessons are learned across the bank.
• Provide intelligence (to internal forums) on specific clients, client-types and emerging risk typologies.

Governance

• Support senior oversight of i3 Asia.
• Support the Head, i3, Asia, in management oversight of the FCC region/country function.
• Inform the Head, i3, Asia, of serious regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Produce high quality written reports of findings, suitable for internal and external stakeholders, including regulators where applicable. Prepare and cascade lessons learned from investigations.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Support the i3 Asia team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles. Fair Outcomes for Clients, Effective Operation of Financial Markets, Financial Crime Prevention. The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Regional and Group i3 management and team members
• Regional FCC stakeholders, including Sanctions, Correspondent Banking, TB and Advisory teams
• Country business management and RMs
• Country FCC MLROs and country FCC teams
• Group FCC stakeholders
• USLCP officers
• Other stakeholders including Legal, Compliance and Operations

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in i3 Asia.
• Foster and manage law enforcement outreach, and outreach to peer banking institutions on intelligence.

Our Ideal Candidate

• ACAMS and ACFE certifications are desirable.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Advisory
• Investigations
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Liaison
• Manage Change
• Manage Projects

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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